Disaster relief
Recognising that Aceh is still prone to natural disasters, FBA maintains a high level of alertness to responding to community needs in the eventuality of floods, landslides and other disasters.
As members of the Asian Disaster Reduction and Response Network (ADRRN), and in partnership with local authorities, our teams are deployed to deliver immediate relief in emergency situations and assessing needs for follow-up interventions.
As members of the Asian Disaster Reduction and Response Network (ADRRN), and in partnership with local authorities, our teams are deployed to deliver immediate relief in emergency situations and assessing needs for follow-up interventions.
Peduli untuk Tangse
While the eyes of the world gazed upon the tsunami that hit Japan, nature asserted her might by wreaking havoc in Pidie, in the Tangse district of Aceh. Floods and landslides lashed eight communities, wiping out the footprints of most the people that dwelled in those parts.
By early afternoon, March 11, the decision was made to send a FBA team, from Banda Aceh, to deliver some basic relief and assess the situation. The team connected with two more colleagues based in Pidie, who purchased 200 kg of rice, several cartons of noodles, cooking oil, water and eggs to take to the affected areas.
In Tangse FBA liaised with emergency services, army officials and the PMI (Indonesian Red Cross) to get a basic idea of the situation. The PMI leaders provided FBA with an off-road lift to the last of the accessible areas from where the damage could be assessed.
In this location the FBA team was met by a group of men. The men had made the journey in the night, from Puncuok Dua, the most remote village in the affected areas. The men revealed that no emergency had yet reached their village. They had moved the women, children and the elders to a camp higher in the mountains, and came down looking for food as everyone was hungry.
The decision was made to cart the supplies on foot to the affected areas. Splitting the load as evenly as possible, the large group set out for the perilous journey to Puncuok Dua just before midnight, ill-equipped (no wet weather gear or drinking water), under a fine drizzle of rain and in pitch darkness. The road had all but been wiped out, making it necessary to walk through the debris, through peoples’ homes and properties, scrub, dodging barbed wire and collapsed power lines, in mud ankle–deep, and at times, knee-high.
Sometime after 3:00am the group made it to one of the first houses in the village, which was going to serve as our distribution point. At first light, and as the villagers began to return to their homes, the supplies were distributed to the affected families. The FBA team joined with PMI officials to conduct a damage assessment of the area to develop a strategy for further intervention.
While the eyes of the world gazed upon the tsunami that hit Japan, nature asserted her might by wreaking havoc in Pidie, in the Tangse district of Aceh. Floods and landslides lashed eight communities, wiping out the footprints of most the people that dwelled in those parts.
By early afternoon, March 11, the decision was made to send a FBA team, from Banda Aceh, to deliver some basic relief and assess the situation. The team connected with two more colleagues based in Pidie, who purchased 200 kg of rice, several cartons of noodles, cooking oil, water and eggs to take to the affected areas.
In Tangse FBA liaised with emergency services, army officials and the PMI (Indonesian Red Cross) to get a basic idea of the situation. The PMI leaders provided FBA with an off-road lift to the last of the accessible areas from where the damage could be assessed.
In this location the FBA team was met by a group of men. The men had made the journey in the night, from Puncuok Dua, the most remote village in the affected areas. The men revealed that no emergency had yet reached their village. They had moved the women, children and the elders to a camp higher in the mountains, and came down looking for food as everyone was hungry.
The decision was made to cart the supplies on foot to the affected areas. Splitting the load as evenly as possible, the large group set out for the perilous journey to Puncuok Dua just before midnight, ill-equipped (no wet weather gear or drinking water), under a fine drizzle of rain and in pitch darkness. The road had all but been wiped out, making it necessary to walk through the debris, through peoples’ homes and properties, scrub, dodging barbed wire and collapsed power lines, in mud ankle–deep, and at times, knee-high.
Sometime after 3:00am the group made it to one of the first houses in the village, which was going to serve as our distribution point. At first light, and as the villagers began to return to their homes, the supplies were distributed to the affected families. The FBA team joined with PMI officials to conduct a damage assessment of the area to develop a strategy for further intervention.
